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Public Transport Fare: Fair Or Unfair? - a Case of Pune PUBLIC TRANSPORT FARE: FAIR OR UNFAIR? - A CASE OF PUNE Deshpande-Agashe, Pranjali, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, Pune, India. [email protected], [email protected] SUMMARY: Public transport fare has always been a subject of debate; whether public transport shall be made free of cost, or fare structure shall meet operational expenses or public transport shall depend on subsidies. This study aims to analyze the current fare structure of public transport system in Pune region and testify the techniques to rationalize the same with the aim of optimum fare structure meeting equitable access to poor and incentives for middle and higher middle classes so as to opt for public transport instead of private vehicles. It also focuses on various alternatives to make the system financially sustainable. Most of the systems see fare as a major source of revenue generation however there are many techniques to generate non fare revenue in order to subsidise fare. In comparison with various public transport companies in India, Pune has been the highest among Bangalore and Ahmedabad and many other cities. The current fare structure highly disappoints the possibility of modal shift from private vehicles to public transport since the extra cost incurred in case of transfers leads to more expenses than that for private vehicles especially for short trip lengths. Overall, the existing fare structure needs urgent attention so as to cope up with current user’s financial capabilities and attract more passengers resulting in modal shift especially when the city is in progress of implementing high quality Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) System. A rationalized fare structure which complements rationalized operations and BRT will result in increased bus patronage as a result of modal shift and better accessibility. Key Words: Public transport; fare; route rationalisation; Pune PURPOSE OF THE STUDY: Public Transport Company needs to operate with two conflicting goals of providing outstanding public transport services for citizens and at the same time managing financial viability [EMBARQ: Bus Karo: A Guidebook on Bus Planning & Operations, 2009]. Though it is necessary to manage financial viability, fare shall not be seen as the only mechanism to compensate financial losses. Any public transport fare which fails to give cheaper solution than expenditure on private vehicle will discourage use of public transport. It is the responsibility of government to provide subsidies against financial losses provided that if the losses are due to inefficiencies of the system, majors to eradicate inefficiencies shall be taken care of. Fare has always been seen as a source to generate more revenue however there exists many sources to generate non fare revenue. Neglecting non fare revenue sources, many public transport companies try to generate more revenue with fare hike. Fare hike which is inequitable may decrease the use of public transport for short distances. Study aims at analysing the current public transport fare structure of Pune. Objective of this study is to derive new options for fare structure that ensures fewer burdens on short trip users and comparatively more but reasonable revision in fare for long trips and at the same time meeting financial requirements of public transport company. It also aims to find alternative sources to generate non fare revenue towards financial sustainability. MATERIALS AND/OR METHODS: 1. Introduction: Pune Metropolitan Region (total of 1340sqm) consists of city of Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC), Cantonment boards and surrounding villages. Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML) is public transport company that provides public transport services to entire region with a total network of approximately 1000 km and 330 routes serving the region and its surrounding villages. Though company serves wide network of service, extremely long routes and unnecessary overlapping of routes result in uneven load factors for many routes. Frequent breakdowns because of poor maintenance and old age fleet result in further degradation of service. Such scenario results in irregular frequency of buses with around 69% of buses having frequency less than 1 bus every 30 min. Long waiting times and high demand routes with crowded buses cause passenger inconvenience while on the other hand uneven loads for most of the routes result in financial losses and under utilization of public transport services. PMPML has total fleet of 1560 out of which on an average 1320 buses are in operations with daily 1100000 passenger trips. On an average, 880 passengers travel per bus with daily km/bus as 225 with average load of 32. At present current cost/km for operations is Rs 42 while revenue /km constitute to be Rs 30. This corresponds to average financial losses of 7-8% for financial year of 2011-12. PMPML currently earns Rs 84.6 lakh per day from ticket revenues. With pass sales and other revenues, total revenues come to Rs 106.0 lakh per day. With costs of around Rs 112.2 per day, PMPML faces an operating deficit of Rs 6.05 lakh per day. At present, fare is the major source of revenue for PMPML. Non fare revenue of PMPML constitute of only 3%. Neglecting non fare revenue sources imposes burden on passengers as the only financial source remains is through fare hike. Hence, in order to move towards minimizing deficit, It is highly required that company shall first look at the options to minimize operating costs. A key may be found in rationalizing route structure. 2. Methodology for proposed fare structure: Cost of living and expenditure on transport in various major cities have been studied to compare fare of public transport in Pune with other cities. Except for Mumbai, all other cities show that citizens paying approximately 20% of the total expenditures towards transport whereas average trip length ranges from 5 to 6 km [www.numbeo.com,2012] In comparison with all the major cities in India like Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai and Delhi, Pune has the highest base fare and also high charges per km (see graph1). Also in case of other cities, low base fare provides opportunity to opt public transport for short trips. If the trend of fare hike by Re1 per stage continues in case of Pune, it shows highly inequitable fare as compared with other cities. BMTC in Bangalore is a good example of low fare as compared with Pune and high quality of bus service with periodic route rationalization. BMTC generates high non fare revenue with the use of commercial exploitation of land, advertisement rights, techniques to reduce fuel losses and periodic route rationalization. It is essential to study and generate ‘fair’ fare structure in order to achieve financial viability without compromising the basic goal of satisfying users i.e. passengers. There has been trend to increase 1 re/ km every year irrespective of socio economic changes. If the usual practices of flat fare hike by Re 1 per stage continuous it will create imbalanced financial burden on different users. It can be clearly stated that though Re 1 has been added to all stages, it results in different percent of increase for different users especially more percent increase on short trip users (See graph3). It results in 10- 14% of fare increase for trips less than 10 km and on the other hand only 3-5% of for trips more than 20 km. 30 Delhi Indore Flat fare hike of Rs 1 per stage Chennai 25 Pune2011 Bangalore Ahmedabad 20 15 Rs 10 5 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 Km travelled Graph1: Comparative analysis of Public Transport Fare in major cities of [Sources: PMPML, BMTC, City bus Indore, MTC, DTC, Janmarg] The entire denomination study has been conducted to generate base data for the analysis. With use of E ticket passenger data, average number of passengers per stage has been calculated. It shows that with existing fare structure there is tremendous imbalanced burden on short trip passengers. Pune has base fare of Rs 5 and 60 ps/km results in general formula of Fare= 5 + (0.6* trip distance in km). Average trip length of public transport users in Pune is 7.8km and average fare comes to be Rs10.5. In 2011, public transport in Pune comprises of daily 11 lakh passenger trips out of which 8 lakh passengers using tickets and 3 lakh pass users [Vansha Infotech, 2011]. Out of these 8 lakh passengers, maximum number of passengers i.e. 77% of total ticket users travel one way trip distance for less than 12 km (See graph 2). These 77% of passengers contribute to 50% of total passenger km. Revenue generation by these passengers comes out to be 65% of total revenue generation by ticket sell. Hence the 50% of passenger km of short trips contributes to 65% of total ticket revenue highlights the financial burden as well as imbalance in current fare formula. Remaining 35% of revenue gets generated from remaining 23% of passengers travelling distances greater than 12km. 1400 Existing Ticket Revenue 1200 Existing 1 day passengers 1000 800 600 400 200 Number (in thousand) (in Number 0 2 4 6 8 1012141618202224262830323436384042444648505254565860 Graph 2: Ticket revenuePassenger and passengers km per day Past trends of fare hike show constant hike by Re 1 to per stage whereas each stage comprises of approximately 2 km. In 2010-11, the base fare of Rs 3 had been increased to Rs 5 to cope up with fuel hikes of Rs 7.5 [Times of India, 2010] which corresponds to increase by 66% of base fare (see Graph 3)! For passengers travelling long distances, the increase was much smaller, around 8 per cent. The same 1 Re per stage fare increase for 2012 creates the same disparity between short- and long-distance trips.
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